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Just water : theology, ethics, and the global water crisis

by: Peppard, Christiana Z

Publication date: 2014

Topics: Right to water, Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church, Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church, Umweltschutz, Theologische Ethik, Wassernutzung

Publisher: Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

x, 230 pages ; 21 cm

An interdisciplinary analysis of the value of fresh water that generates timely and principled conclusions at the intersections of hydrology, ecology, ethics, theology, and Catholic social thought

Includes bibliographical (pages 193-212) and index

Prelude: writing water -- Theology and ethics for the new millennium -- A primer on the global fresh water crisis -- Water: human right or economic commodity? -- A right-to-life issue for the twenty-first century -- The agriculture/water nexus -- The Jordan River -- Climate change and water in the Anthropocene -- Water from rock: hydraulic fracturing -- Women, wells, and living water -- Coda: lessons in liquidity